Climate & Environment

United Nations, United States, Aug 15 (AFP/APP): Grenada’s former environment minister Simon Stiell was named Monday as the new UN Climate Change chief, replacing Patricia Espinosa of Mexico, the UN secretary-general’s office said. The appointment of the long-time advocate for climate action was approved by […]

ISLAMABAD 14 Aug (Online): Minister of climate change Sherry Rehman has said that Pakistan’s protected areas have suffered immensely due to the catastrophic impact of climate change. While speaking at Trail 5, where a clean-up drive was organised by her ministry to mark the 75th […]

PESHAWAR, Aug 14 (APP):In the prevailing climate crisis affecting our environment, health and economy as well, there was also existing opportunity in shape of global initiative of `Green Funds’ that could be tapped through our struggle for building a sustainable ecosystem by rethinking and transforming […]

Halabja, Iraq, Aug 9 (AFP/APP):Kurdish Iraqi farmer Azad Muhamad has become a social media star by sharing tips on growing fresh fruit and vegetables in the sun-parched country that is highly vulnerable to climate change. The moustachioed 50-year-old with almost half a million Facebook followers […]

Athens, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): Days after one of Greece’s top national parks narrowly escaped massive destruction from a massive fire that raged for over a week, the country’s environment ministry congratulated itself. Among Greece’s underfunded and understaffed habitats, the Dadia national park is — on […]

Maricá, Brazil, Aug 5 (AFP/APP): Clutching a machete and a cell phone, indigenous leader Vanderlei Weraxunu tours his community’s future home, a swathe of tropical forest land north of Rio de Janeiro where his people will finally have water. Weraxunu is one of around 50 […]

Berlin, Aug 4 (AFP/APP): An “unprecedented” fire broke out Thursday around a German police munitions storage site in a popular forest in western Berlin, sending plumes of smoke into the skies and setting off a series of explosions. The fire began in the Grunewald forest […]

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua/APP): China’s national observatory on Thursday continued to issue a yellow alert for high temperatures as a scorching heatwave lingers in a vast area of the country. During daylight hours on Thursday, parts of Shaanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, […]

Reykjavik, Aug 3 (AFP/APP): A volcano erupted just 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Wednesday, spewing lava from a fissure in the ground near the site of a similar eruption last year. Known as the land of fire and ice, Iceland is […]

Yreka, United States, Aug 1 (AFP/APP): The largest fire in California this year is forcing thousands of people to evacuate as it destroys homes and rips through the state’s dry terrain, whipped up on Sunday by strong winds and lightning storms. The McKinney Fire was […]